Optical and optoacoustic based tomography: Theory and current challenges for deep tissue imaging of optical contrast

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-100

  Mohajerani, Pouyan ^a   Tzoumas, Stratis ^b   Rosenthal, Amir ^b   Ntziachristos, Vasilis ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Biological tissues; Biomedical imaging; Biomedical optical imaging; Biomedical signal processing; Optical imaging; Optical scattering; Optical sensors; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; OPTICAL SENSORS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL SCATTERING;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 85032752428     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2014.2352672     Document Type: Article

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